Theory of Mind represents the ingestion, curated entrainment and epistemological event horizon of an essentially inarticulable metaphysical Otherness.
Much is made of commercial opportunity and/or existential threat represented by artificial intelligence. I’m not sure we should be so concerned about the potential arrival of unregulated superintelligence, if indeed this does ever occur. We will remain more haunted by the fact that the current apogee of neuroscientific and computational self-simulation quite concretely indicates that, as we stare into this logical abyss of our own arbitrarily categorised high-dimensional data complexity, we find that no one and nothing is gazing back.
I am reminded of Jorge Luis Borges’ “Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.” We build words and worlds on nothing in much this way. Mind may in some sense represent an undecidable logical proposition but we must live, pragmatically, as though it were well-defined and tangibly pliable.
Daedelus Kite 